Lets be honest. Searching for https://hn.algolia.com/?q=burnout in hn shows so many people suffering from burnouts working in industry.

My SO is a research software engineer.

1. As you say, she doesn't build ad-ware and do take pride... 2. relaxed and convenient job timings 3. In EU - close to 31 days paid + usually Professors are very generous about going home early etc... 4. Pension, unions, unlimited contracts 5. No one gives a shit when github/gitlab/heroku loses credentials on a Easter weekend. (We were in roadtrip) - chill life.